Wily! vs Photon - DMX Light Controller Usage & Stats
Wily! is a virtual control surface for controlling the lighting software PREGO (E.GO Controls) and HATHOR (ADB).
Wily! synthesizes the characteristic accesses of the lighting consoles (hardwares) with the feedback of the softwares.
Wily! had been designed to allow the light creation process to be uninterrupted and collegial. It is possible to work together, from several places simultaneously on one or several PREGO or HATHOR stations.
Its simplicity of handling makes it a tool for all. It will give the necessary feedback to the lighting engineers, allowing them to intervene on their light in symbiosis with the showroom and electricians. Efficient and indispensable, you will appreciate it as well in creation, operation or on tour.
Characteristics :
- easy handling
- modularity (each additional iPad multiplies the amount of accesses)
- wired or wireless operation
- personalization options per user
- "console" mode or "client" mode
- secure connection
- allows to extend the accesses of compatible consoles PREGO + HATHOR
- Ergonomics designed for main console use
- ideal as backup, complement, tour, feedback, preparation ...
- multi-iPad work simultaneously (independent or coupled)
- plug'n'play
- full access to playback registers (playbacks, fields, independents, playback master, Grand master ...)
- control of moving lights
- full access to all types of records
- Channels information throughout the pipe
- calibration of color changers with copy functions
- full access to patch
- and many others !
Notes:
The purchase of PREGO or HATHOR software is essential. Wily! also works with PREGO or HATHOR offline, UNO128 and OnPC.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Productivity
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Photon, the next generation of professional user friendly DMX lighting console perfect for nightclubs, musicians, live events, filmmakers, theaters...
Wireless (Art-Net or sACN through WIFI) and easy to use, Photon reinvents the way to control DMX devices with its single interface for all your lights.
Indeed, combine multiple presets to a sequence and synchronize your lights to music. Our beat tracker listens and animates your devices to the rhythm of the music. Live events will have no more secret for you.
Features of the free version:
- Multi-touch interface designed and optimized for the iPad.
⁃ Light group management. Associate multiple lights together to perform similar controls (colors, positions, brightness ...).
- Classic DMX console for sophisticated controls (gobos/fog/focus...)
⁃ Managing scenes. Create and play animations/effects on your lights.
⁃ Smart color manager.
⁃ Art-Net /sACN / DMX output channel analyzer.
⁃ Complete control of an Art-Net universe with 512 channels.
⁃ Art-Net in multicast or unicast.
⁃ sACN in multicast or unicast.
⁃ Database with hundreds of pre-configured devices (fixtures).
- Fixture creator to configure your custom devices.
Features of the in-app purchase:
⁃ Sound analyzer : sync your lights to music.
⁃ Multi scene / multi group sequencer. Combine multiple cues to a sequence and animate it.
⁃ Edit your sequences as in a video editor with the timeline.
⁃ Automatic, manual or semi-automatic beat control for the sequencer.
- Ableton Link support : Sync lights animations with your favorite DJ app or musical instrument. Link is a technology that keeps devices in time over a local network for a perfect synchronization between lights and music.
⁃ Management of the animation curve in/out.
- Background mode
* Requires an Art-Net (or sACN) Bridge to DMX. Photon is based on the open lighting architecture (open lighting project).
** Purchase of the "Sequencer" with the in-app purchase
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Productivity
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Wily! VS. 
Photon - DMX Light ControllerJanuary 12, 2025